Tailleur pour dames: Feydeau in the 1970s at the Théâtre de la Madeleine

Feydeau’s Tailleur pour dames returns to Paris in a seventies-style adaptation directed by Julien Alluguette and starring Mikaël Mittelstadt. At the Théâtre de la Madeleine from November 5, 2026, to January 10, 2027.

A Gown for a Lady, the vaudeville by Georges Feydeau, returns to a Paris stage in a new production that relocates its world to the 1970s. Adapted by Julien Alluguette and Ange-Mathieu Bonvarlet and directed by Julien Alluguette, the play is on at the Théâtre de la Madeleine, starring Mikaël Mittelstadt, with a rotating cast.

In the center of the play, Doctor Moulineaux returns home in the early hours after a night out. To keep his wife from discovering the truth, he improvises a lie: he claims he has quit medicine to become a ladies’ tailor. This fabrication quickly plunges Moulineaux into a string of entanglements involving, notably, his wife, his mother-in-law, his mistress, her husband, and a client.

In this new adaptation, Julien Alluguette relocates the action to the 1970s. The staging leans on a pop-infused aesthetic and nods to funk and disco. Each character even has their own musical motif to accompany their entrance. This approach lets Feydeau’s world breathe anew without altering the core of the vaudeville, built on lies, blurred identities, and comic mix-ups.

Mikaël Mittelstadt is at the center of the cast. Several performers take turns alongside him: Maxym Anciaux, Rebecca Benhamour, Virginie Caliari, Florence Coste, Simon Dartois, Axelle Dodier, Laurence Facelina, Sarah Fitri, Luigi Kröner, Lou Ladegaillerie, Loryn Nounay, Kathy Packianathan, Aurélie Pons, Galaad Quenouillère, Thomas Vilan and Fabian Wolfrom. Several of these actors are particularly well known to audiences for their roles in the series Ici tout commence.

Julien Alluguette directs the production, assisted by Agathe Jolivet. He co-wrote the adaptation with Ange-Mathieu Bonvarlet, with set design by Stéphanie Jarre, costumes by Jean-Daniel Vuillermoz and lighting by Denis Koransky. The running time is listed as 1 hour 20 minutes.

This 2026 production of A Tailor for Ladies follows in the footsteps of previous Paris productions of the play, including the one staged at the Théâtre Montparnasse in 2015, adapted by Jean Poiret and directed by Agnès Boury. This time, Feydeau’s play is back on the Paris stage at the Théâtre de la Madeleine.

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